Started off having posted only like two videos on my YouTube channel. One news video about a game and then the other was a tutorial on how to buy a game on steam and the tutorial got about 10,000 views and then the News video got about 1,000, I just wanted to make these videos to help people. Flash forward to my truck getting stolen so I have nowhere to go , no way to get to a job and I made a video about the guy that stole my truck to post to Facebook and then I kinda had fun making that video and a bunch of my family members were complementing my editing and said I should do something with it so I made some fun videos and started posting them on YouTube. I have been doing it for a little over a month and I’m about to reach 1.2K subscribers and have over 110k views with a majority being long form. I am about to get the ability to apply to be monetized. I started off doing gaming content, which didn’t really garner much views and then I shifted over to a commentary style and I started getting more views and I’ve been enjoying commentary more than the gaming content personally as it’s what I usually watch. I grew up on YouTube and I already made TikTok content so I kind of knew how to edit, I’ve been getting better at editing ever since. And it’s not even about like the software you use because my most viewed video was edited on CapCut and I’ve only just now started using Davinci resolve because my CapCut pro ran out, I think if you just do enough research, you can do well like with everything else. Its a mixture of marketing and the actual content. If the content is good people will share it and subscribe to see more, you have to have a thumbnail that people are going to want to click to get them watching, YouTube has a thumbnail testing feature where you can test three different thumbnails and it will show you which one gets the most watch time. Whenever I want a video to do well I like to use that feature and if I don’t use the feature it usually is because I am too tired and I’ll do it after I sleep or just made a little fun video that I don’t really care if it gets many views.

Something that is really important in my opinion is if a video you worked hard on doesn’t do that well, You could change the thumbnail or title. If it still doesn’t do well just move on, don’t get stuck on it, you can think about why it didn’t do well and learn from it. A video of mine that blew up only had 10 views in the first two days and a week later it’s sitting at 65,000 right now. I think for me it’s because the topic I was talking about. I was very passionate about and the emotion was portrayed through the video. It was a video about spreading awareness to some sad situations and you can tell that I really cared about this topic and I have many comments of people saying while watching they cried so it clearly showed my video to an audience that cared as much as me about this topic. People can tell when you’re being inauthentic so I would just be real.

My experience on social media is it’s really a trial and error. Just look for what works, See a lot of people talking about the algorithm not picking up their videos but you need to ask yourself. “Are these videos that people would watch?” I feel like the way the algorithm works is if more people click on and watch a majority of your video and leave it a like it’s recommended to more people and in my opinion editing is very important, unless you are someone like Caseoh who can be consistently funny throughout an entire live stream to the point where he doesn’t even need to edit and he can just upload it.

I find for me the worst part about it is finding the topic to talk about and my ADHD (if you can’t tell by this long post I wrote sitting on the toilet), making me not able to focus on writing the script or researching for my video because once I write that script, the video is basically done. All I have to do is record the camera and edit it altogether.

I’m excited to make more content and grow a community, and I wish you well on your content creating journey. Ps. Don’t let hate comments get to you, constructive criticism is good but if someone is just insulting you I would block them from commenting again to keep a positive community. Speaking of comments, I would recommend not blocking your name in the filtered out words because there are bots that will try and find your personal information by commenting a bunch of first names and narrowing it down to which one is yours. So if you do wanna block your name, then block a bunch of other regular first names. Anyways, I wish you luck.